Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Bouteloua from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-59-001:
Bouteloua curtipendula FAMILY Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Bouteloua curtipendula
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bouteloua curtipendula
COMMON NAME:
Sideoats Grama
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_atcu2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_bocu_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-59-001:
Bouteloua curtipendula
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Bouteloua curtipendula
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bouteloua curtipendula
2866
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Habitat: Prairies, dry rocky slopes and bluffs over calcareous rocks (such as limestone, dolomite, or calcareous shale) or ultramafic rocks (such as serpentine or metabasalt), limestone glades, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p208
- Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p535
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